Welcome
to MidasTouch.org

Midas Touch is a free onscreen keyboard program for Windows 10,
8.1, 8, 7,
Vista,
or XP that
is designed to be used with Camera
Mouse or any other
head-controlled access technology.

Midas Touch is an easy-to-use program with one button for typing each
letter, two buttons to type a space, one button to Delete the previous
character, two buttons to speak the current message, and four buttons
(in green) that can provide a resting place for the mouse pointer while
you
are moving your head using Camera Mouse.

Camera
Mouse uses dwell
time to click.
That is, if you hold the mouse pointer within a certain spot
on
the screen for 1 second a click is issued by Camera Mouse.
This
makes users of Camera Mouse subject to the "Midas Touch problem"
(see the article “What you look at is what you
get,” R.J.K. Jacob, Computer,
vol. 26, no. 7, pp. 65–66, July 1993), where a key on which
the
mouse pointer dwells can be clicked by mistake. The green
keys
in the Midas Touch program cannot be clicked and can be used as a
resting place for the mouse
pointer.

At any time in the main screen the
message can be spoken using the built-in voice in Windows (usually
Microsoft
David or Zira for English (United States) in Windows 10, 8.1 or 8 or Microsoft
Anna in Windows 7 and Vista or Microsoft Sam in XP) by clicking on the
Speak button.
Whenever a letter is added the entire message automatically
is
copied
into the clipboard so it can be pasted in another application.
The message can be saved as a standard text file in the File
menu.

(If you have a difficult time with Midas Touch because of accuracy
issues with the mouse pointer you should try the similar program
Staggered Speech,
which is available for free download at www.staggeredspeech.org.
Staggered Speech is a two-level spelling program with larger
buttons and fewer buttons on the screen, but it takes two mouse clicks
to type each letter.)

Note that depending on the settings in your browser, when you click on
the download button you may need to give your browser
permission to download the program, for example by clicking on the thin
yellow band at the top of the browser.

The
following computer
screen video was made using Midas Touch and Camera
Mouse. (Our
thanks to "JJPeerless," who made the video
and put it on
YouTube.) The video is silent, but Midas Touch will speak the
letters selected and the final message.